- Additional Authors
- Description
- 125 pages : illustrations (some color); 32 cm
- Summary
- "Sebastian Stadler's book work A Close Up of a Large Rock, I Think combines the artist's photographic work L'apparition, 2015-2019 with text generated by image-recognition software. Each of the images, whether single or in a series, is a double exposure composition: a relatively generic scene or location is merged with a digital texture or surface. This combination sometimes punctures the image; on occasion it barely makes the viewer aware of the artifice of the reproduction. The photographs are combined with two forms of text: either a tentative description, like the book title, or what reads like an unmoored quotation. Both have been generated or sourced by an image-recognition algorithm that Stadler has employed in other works; this has been fed the images of L'apparation. The algorithm first presents its findings with the modest addendum 'I think'. In a second step this has been cross-referenced with a huge text database, the Project Gutenberg digital library, in order to source unrelated quotations that accord with the image content identified. A screen-printed mylar cover around the publication further articulates the image-layering process"--Publisher's website.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- Title from cover.
- Catalog of an exhibition "Sebastian Stadler - Pictures, I think" at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, 16 November 2016-16 February 2020; curated by Nadio Veronese.
- Awards (note)
- Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Book Awards. 2021 First PhotoBook Shortlist.
- ISBN
- OCLC
- 1277506466
- Author
Stadler, Sebastian, 1988- artist.
- Title
A close up of a large rock, I think / Sebastian Stadler ; texts by Marco Poloni and Nadia Veronese.
- Edition
First edition.
- Type of Content
still image
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Awards
Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Book Awards. 2021 First PhotoBook Shortlist.
- Chronological Term
2000-2099
- Added Author
Poloni, Marco, author.
Veronese, Nadia, author.
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, host institution.